Twelve years later, in the year 1139 of the Dawn calendar

In the morning, in the barracks on the edge of the town, where the center of the Barony of Entes was centered, a boy who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old was working a training ground.

"Hah-"

Dressed in small, well-fitting leather armor and carrying a wooden sword for training, but not much different in weight from a standard one-handed sword, the boy wielded the wooden sword in his hand.

It can be seen that the boy's movements and swinging swordsmanship have done a lot of work, and the flexible footwork and the swordsmanship that are quite standard at a glance cannot be said to be amazing, but it is already rare for a teenager who is still a few days away from twelve.

The footwork and one-handed swordsmanship practiced by the teenager are very simple, and the footwork and one-handed swordsmanship practiced are several very simple movements, but only the discerning person can see that the unusually simple but effective movements are the knowledge that only those veterans who have experienced the battlefield and knights and nobles with a heritage will summarize.

After practicing the swordsmanship and the coordinated footwork hundreds of times in a row, the young man, who was already sweating a lot on his forehead, paused at the shout of a knight in thick black metal armor next to him and began to adjust his breathing.

"Young Master Rhodes, after resting a third of the standard hourglass, let's conduct confrontation training!" Seeing that the young man stopped, he still did not let go of the wooden sword in his hand and was vigilant, but adjusted his breathing and looked over. The knight, who was two meters and two meters tall and as strong as an upright brown bear, nodded in his heart, but his tone was still very indifferent.

"Yes! Knights of Tel!" After listening to the knight's words, the young man named Rhodes nodded, and then spoke politely.

Then, under the gaze of Knight Tel, Rhodes began to move the position on his body that he had just felt a little hot and numb due to continuous high-intensity activity, so that his body could recover to a state suitable for fighting!

Right! It's a good fight, not a confrontation!

Since he began to officially receive the guidance and training of the Tel Knight three years ago, Rhodes quickly realized the character of the Tel Knight, and the so-called "confrontation training" in the mouth of the rigid Tel Knight is generally infinitely close to real combat!

If he didn't want to wait for a short time to be severely taught a lesson by the Ter Knight for slackness, it was the right choice for Rhodes to keep his concentration and body at their best and to fight with a truly prepared fighting determination.

After about twenty minutes, Rhodes and Ter Knight began to stand in the training ground, and after raising their swords to each other and performing a hand-to-hand etiquette on each other, they began to practice against each other.

Of course, when it comes to confrontation, it is really Rod who is a one-sided attack on the Tel Knights alone. In the face of the wooden sword wielded by Rod, the wooden sword of the same material and standard in the hands of the Ter Knight was easily stopped, and seized the opportunity to fight back from time to time to make it difficult for Rod to resist the attack, and even fell on Rode's body from time to time to give Rod in leather armor a burst of pain!

But even so, Rhodes gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, but swung his sword hard to try to inflict a successful attack on the Knights of Ter - that is, to stab the wooden sword on the armor worn by the opponent!

Unfortunately, this goal was still a little difficult for Rod, but he still waved the wooden sword in his hand with a determined face, trying to attack the Knights of Terr!

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On the other side of the barracks, pointing to a town no more than three hundred meters away, in a room on the third floor of the mansion of the lord of Baron Entres, a middle-aged man who looked a little like Rhodes but was much more mature stood by the window, looking at the battle situation in the training camp of the barracks, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

As the father of Rod Entes, Kate Entes, the seventh Baron of Entes, is in a good mood right now.

As a baron in the kingdom of Taran, Kate Entes certainly understands the simplest and most important rule in the kingdom and the continent - the strong prevail!

Although the Entes family is a baronial family, what really supports the family is not the aristocratic blood and etiquette, but the strong people who have appeared in the entire family from generation to generation. As for the identity of the noble, it is considered a kind of glory in the eyes of the common people, but in front of the real powerhouse, the identity of the nobleman is just an illusory aura.

Looking at his eldest son's appearance now, Baron Entes certainly felt quite satisfied—as a peer, Rod Entes was already considered outstanding, and could even be described as a genius.

"Monr!" Baron Entes did not speak until he saw that his eldest son had been fighting for about a standard hourglass and began to grin back on the training ground.

"Sir!" Listening to his master's orders, an old man dressed as a butler who looked to be almost fifty years old with a hint of gray hair quietly appeared three meters behind Baron Ernst to wait for the order.

"Grab some of Rhodes' favorite water rabbit meat for dinner today! Also, is the object of Rhodes' Courage Trial ready?" Looking at the stubborn figure on the training ground, Baron Ernst, who used to look very majestic, commanded in a relatively gentle tone.

"Yes, sir! There is no problem with the water rabbit, about the object of the courage test Yesterday, the Tamon knight reported that he only caught a dozen goblins and a few gnolls" Listening to his master's words, the Mont butler bowed his head respectfully and responded, but it was obviously a little low in the words behind.

"Goblins? Gnolls?" Listening to his butler's words, Baron Ernst couldn't help frowning, and then made a decision after walking a few steps in the room, and instructed his trusted old butler: "Then don't choose the object of the Rhodes Courage Test first, wait to see if there is a more suitable choice!"

"Yes, sir!" The old butler, who understood his master's thoughts, did not say much, but simply whispered yes, and then quietly exited the room like a ghost, and began to whisper to the servants waiting outside the door.

"Rod, your test of courage is coming soon," Baron Ernst thought silently to himself as he watched the short figure in the barracks who was still working the training ground, listening to the footsteps of several servants leaving the door.

As a father, although Baron Ernst can't say much in order to maintain his strict father's posture on weekdays, he is still very concerned about his eldest son's life in secret. And in the nobles, knights and other families of the five kingdoms of the Northland, it is equivalent to the courage test of the heirs and juniors to express themselves, which is a very important thing!

Looking at the figure of his precious son, Baron Ernst was thinking about it in his heart with some distress.

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A few hours later, after the sun began to set towards the horizon, Rod Ernst, who was drenched with sweat and dried up several times, began to walk from the barracks towards the lord's mansion in the town, supported by two servants with two wooden chests.

"Master Rod!"

"Look! It's Master Rhodes."

"If you work so hard, you really deserve to be a genius."

Along the way, except for a patrol group of soldiers who saluted Rod Ernst, the other civilians and freedmen did not dare to go up and say anything to Rod Ernst, and at most whispered to him.

Rhodes didn't pay any attention to anything, exhausted now, all he wanted was to go back and take a warm bath and then have a hearty dinner to fill his already rumbling stomach.

As for the civilians and freemen? Well, even in normal times, Rhodes couldn't talk to the vast majority of commoners and freemen at will, after all, this was an era when there was no strong force, and the hierarchy of nobles and commoners was quite distinct!

"Master Rod, please follow me!" When Rod walked into the lord's mansion amid the salute and greetings of several guards and soldiers, the old butler of Moner, who was waiting in front of the door, said to Rod in a kind manner.

"Please!" For the old housekeeper of Moner, who has served his family for several generations, Rod also said very politely and followed behind the old butler.

As for the two servants behind him? They will send the miscellaneous items and clothes in their hands to the servants of the mansion to deal with.

Fifteen minutes later, in a separate bathroom on the first floor of the mansion with all but the sweat-soaked clothes served by the two maids, Rhodes lay down in the hot single bath with a faint green glow, and took a deep breath before sinking his head into it.

Two minutes later, Rode, who couldn't hold back his blushing face, surfaced, and then continued to take a deep breath and sink into the pool. After several attempts, the water in the bath, which had been pale green and scented, became cloudy and blue, and the pleasant smell disappeared.

"If I can go back, whoever tells me that people in the magic world are stupid, who am I anxious about!" When Rod got up and left the bath, opened the bath hole casually and let go of the pool water that had turned blue and even had a fishy smell, looking at the blue pool water and the magic crystal lamp in the bathroom, Rod couldn't help but mutter.

If the servants standing outside heard Rod's words, they would be very surprised to find that Young Master Rhodes did not speak the lingua franca of the human race, but a language that he had never heard at all! Even if there were any learned scholars or high-ranking mages who specialized in the languages of the various peoples, they would have been shocked to find that the language Rhodes spoke was not even any language they had seen before.

Because, this language is the language of another world - Chinese!